Dmitry Aksenov

Dmitry started his research activity in 2008 being a second year student at Belgorod State University (BSU). He was working in the Laboratory of Theoretical Investigations and Computer Simulation under supervision of A.G. Lipnitskii studying grain boundary segregation of impurities and precipitation of Ti-C phases in titanium alloys using quantum mechanics approaches. Dmitry graduated from BSU with honors in 2011, and defended his Candidate of Sciences degree in Physics and Mathematics in 2014. Dmitry won DAAD scholarship for young scientists in 2013 to continue his research at Max-Planck-Institute for Iron Research (MPIE), Düsseldorf, Germany. He worked there in the Computational Materials Design Department headed by Prof. J. Neugebauer with the assistance of T. Hickel.

At Skoltech, Dmitry use computational methods to study and develop inorganic materials. The main focus is on cathode materials for secondary metal-ion batteries (Li-ion, Na-ion, K-ion). Using especially developed tools for high-throughput DFT calculations [SIMAN] Dmitry is searching for cathode materials with stable structure, low migration barriers of diffusion and high energy density.